The name of the heath-myrtle, sent by you, is Calycothrix tetragona, it grows also in the Murray desert.
Calycothrix tetragona
MS in M's hand, attached to a flower painting by Henrietta Wehl, the artist identified in Dowe et al. (2020), p. 25, who state that the note 'corresponds to a specimen in MEL collected from Lake Bonney in 1889' identified in n. 68 as MEL 86294, attributed to E. Wehl (i.e. Ettie, the familiar version of Henrietta); see also Fig. 39, p. 37. The item is dated accordingly to 1889.
Please cite as “FVM-89-00-00t,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on